eBAY IS LIMITING LISTINGS OF THE HOTTEST CHRISTMAS TOY? MAKES NO SENSE?

[etxcltr]

oK 

I gotta say i buy and flip items on ebay. So when i heard about the Hottest toy this year and then found some i posted them in my store for sale. Well i posted 5 seperate auctions sense there all same toy but different colors. Ok today i found two more different versions so i went to post them and got a Sorry but were limiting how many of this years hottest toy you can list??? Im like HUH?

All eBay is about is $$$$$$. So why they would limit a hot christmas toy is beyond me? I have perfect feedback. I take pride in shipping and handling. 

So limiting me and i can only assume others is well a big  pretty much.

Thanks eBay guess i will list my hot toys on another site and probably be like so many other sellers i see on this very board.. Who are closing there stores and saying goodbye to eBay...

Limit hot toys during christmas time?   

[chrysylys]

All I see are a bunch of cars.

But yes, they often limit listings in one way or another.  No news there.

[etxcltr]

The Hot Toy is Hatchimals Egg. 

And i now see Toys R Us has a ebay acct and is poping up first in searches. Huh, makes ya wonder. Limit how many resellers can sell so TRU can sell of its inventory??

[dosprompt]

Hatchimals....blown up by the media as the hottest toy this christmas.

Not even as cute as the furby was, go figure...

[jackofalltrades-1]

Really glad I only bought a few to sell!I would be pretty upset if I'd bought 10 like I was going to and found out I was limited to sell only 5 of them.

[emerald40]

Actually, I hate when people buy up these toys hoping to hold their parents hostage by having to pay exhorbitant prices.

So no sympathy here,

[yuzuha]

Good for them.  Now there's no incentive for people to go buy out their local stores in the hopes of flipping them for astronomical prices here.

I'm all for profiting on flipping stuff, but not when it involves being the Grinch and ruining a little kid's Christmas.

[yuzuha]

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@emerald40 wrote:

Actually, I hate when people buy up these toys hoping to hold their parents hostage by having to pay exhorbitant prices.

So no sympathy here,

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Couldn't agree more.

[timemachine777]

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@etxcltr wrote:

oK 

I gotta say i buy and flip items on ebay. So when i heard about the Hottest toy this year and then found some i posted them in my store for sale. Well i posted 5 seperate auctions sense there all same toy but different colors. Ok today i found two more different versions so i went to post them and got a Sorry but were limiting how many of this years hottest toy you can list??? Im like HUH?

All eBay is about is $$$$$$. So why they would limit a hot christmas toy is beyond me? I have perfect feedback. I take pride in shipping and handling. 

So limiting me and i can only assume others is well a big *&^%$#@! pretty much.

Thanks eBay guess i will list my hot toys on another site and probably be like so many other sellers i see on this very board.. Who are closing there stores and saying goodbye to eBay...

Limit hot toys during christmas time? W      T        F        

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There are several types of limits that sellers may experience when selling:
Site Wide Limits (SWL, referred to as “selling limits”)
Silent limits (limits placed on an account that can’t be seen by the seller)
URC limits (User Risk Code, limits reduced or placed on an account due to concerns)
Category limits
BTAC limits (Building Trust by Reducing Counterfeits, for branded items)
Hot item limits
Multi-Account limits
Velocity limits
feedback limits

When
All sellers on the site will experience at least one type of selling limit when selling on
the site.
These limits are in place to:
Reduce fraud and circumvention on the site
Ensure sellers can successfully manage their sales
Ensure sellers are increasing volume at a manageable pace
Ensure sellers can meet the expectations of buyers.

Why
Although there are several types of limits, the questions members ask are usually the same:
Why do I have limits?
How many items can I list?
How can I remove (or increase) these limits?
How/when can I list more items?
LVIS (Listing Violation Inspection System) is the most effective tool in determining the
type of limit the member is experiencing.
Please see the information pertaining to their particular limit to determine qualifications
for an increase or potential removal

[cobra-jet-nj]

dupe

[cobra-jet-nj]

I encountered the same - I've been selling on eBay since 1997. For eBay to now dictate to Sellers how much quantity of a product the Seller can or cannot sell is beyond words. It is ridiculous that we are being notified AFTER we have already created a listing. What does it matter to eBay anyway - they are already raking in the profits on all associated fees, such as insertion fee, Reserve fee, final value fee, "shipping fee" (which is ridiculous as well) and any other "upgrade fees" - plus not to mention PayPal fees (yes, they get a percentage of those fees as well). So if anyone wants to list 100 Hatchimals in a single shot, then list another 100 - it should be a Sellers RIGHT to do so - because you know what eBay, if it were not for Sellers, eBay would not exist today - eBay grew because of Sellers. eBay is STILL making out in the end with all of the fee charges, so eBay should be happy Hatchimals is HOT and they're raking in the $$$ because of OUR multiple listings!! Hey eBay higher ups - this is the absolute WORST decision you have ever made by limiting Sellers to quantities of merchandise they can sell - you know why, because we all go someplace else and sell - and even though it's not the "majority", you (eBay) lose all of those fee profits. Please REMOVE the Seller "limitation" on Hatchimals listings! It's also not fair that the "pop up" warning the Seller comes AFTER they have already invested time into creating their ads and listing the merchandise. Why not place the warning on the eBay HOME PAGE? Why not? Because you (eBay) will lose Sellers even faster if we saw that FIRST, rather than LATER, that's why. That's a real shady and an unfair practice to implement without warning.

[18704d]

"I'm all for profiting on flipping stuff, but not when it involves being the Grinch and ruining a little kid's Christmas."

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Each Holiday season, the boards have a thread like this.

And there's two sides to this coin:

Who says the 'flipper' who is buying to resell at a big profit,

doesn't badly need the extra money to keep a roof over his familly's head

food on their table, or the money to buy their kids Christmas gifts?

Thanks,
Lynn

[rednarlenes]

Ebay is always manipulating something instead of letting the market - purchasers - decide.

[emerald40]

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@18704d wrote:

"I'm all for profiting on flipping stuff, but not when it involves being the Grinch and ruining a little kid's Christmas."

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Each Holiday season, the boards have a thread like this.

And there's two sides to this coin:

Who says the 'flipper' who is buying to resell at a big profit,

doesn't badly need the extra money to keep a roof over his familly's head

food on their table, or the money to buy their kids Christmas gifts?

Thanks,
Lynn

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A little profit is fine.  Price gouging is not.

And of course there is the family who does not have much money but is trying to make a happy holiday for their children by buying them gifts they want at the manufacturers suggested price, not 10 times more.

[emerald40]

Please REMOVE the Seller "limitation" on Hatchimals listings! It's also not fair that the "pop up" warning the Seller comes AFTER they have already invested time into creating their ads and listing the merchandise.

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You could have made a test listing to see if anything changed before you made the investment.

Also, many parents are becoming wise to this.  If an item sellls out in the store, we just buy it when it comes back.  And if it is after the holidays we enclose a picture from Santa that it will be a little late.

No one in their right mind is going to actually pay you $1,000 for an item that they can find a couple of weeks later at Toys R US. I wonder how many are actually paying and or returning it when it does become available in the store.

And Kudos for ebay for stopping this price gouging practice.